General

The extreme­ly tal­ent­ed and mul­ti­fac­eted Mis­ter Tim will trav­el­ing through Ohio in May! In addi­tion to his already sched­uled show at Mace­do­nia High School, he is look­ing for oth­er coach­ing and/or per­for­mance oppor­tu­ni­ties around the state. The dates he is avail­able cur­rent­ly are May 13–15, 18–22

If you are a school or group and would like some coach­ing, or a venue that would like to book Mis­ter Tim for a show, you can send him an email [email protected]. If you need more direct con­tact, please send me an email and I can pro­vide more direct con­tact infor­ma­tion.

So I got an email ear­li­er this week ask­ing if we were still around since there haven’t been many posts or updates to the site or Face­book page since last sum­mer. Good news; Yes, we are still active! Bad news; I ate all my piz­za-rolls so now I am post­ing this. 🙂

Last year was a busy year for me per­son­al­ly so keep­ing tabs on all that was going on was a bit much. I mean, I at least should have post­ed some­thing about Pitch Per­fect (aca-i’m-sorry!).

Any­way, this year looks like it has a lot going for A Cap­pel­la and many good things in Ohio. While I am not going to say I will have more time than last year, I will say I am going to make more of an effort to post things more often. Be on look out specif­i­cal­ly this week for a hand­ful of posts and news arti­cles because at least one will be pret­ty awe­some.

In the mean­time, here is an arti­cle that popped up in my news feed thanks to Deke Sharon. While I won’t admit to how many of them I per­son­al­ly can attest to, it is fun­ny none-the-less.

Also, for those that may be new to the Aca scene, you should also check out Pitch Per­fect. While it’s focus is about col­lege com­pe­ti­tion world, it is a great read for any­one with any inter­est in A Cap­pel­la. Did we men­tion that it is also being made into a movie set to be released this year?! Even if you don’t want to buy it (which you should), it has been found in Libraries, so go check it out.

While you won’t be able to do this from your home, the advance­ments in dig­i­tal net­work­ing are bring­ing about some amaz­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for real-time col­lab­o­ra­tion. While video chat­ting is noth­ing major as we have all used Skype, researchers are re-think­ing what it means to have have real-time col­lab­o­ra­tion. Tak­ing into account what the time it takes for the human brain to actu­al­ly process acousti­cal infor­ma­tion, they have final­ly cre­ate a method that is extreme­ly close to real time. Meet LOLA (LOw Laten­cy Audio).